Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
$320 000 – Erupt Stride 9 starts for 5 wins and 3 placings, all at the provincial tracks in Victoria. Never raced in town, and not seen since October last year. Total earnings $48 866, a miserable return on his purchase price. $310 000 – Chicago Bear 6 trails for no wins. Never seen on […]
A great article about the future of the trots in the North Island Capital, by Dr Barry Lichter The Auckland Trotting Club is still committed to setting up a new training centre despite revealing it’s likely to have only $15 million left after the sale of Franklin Park. The club’s annual report shows its debt […]
Question time in WA Parliament, 1988 Australian Drivers Championship Who decided to give Tassie the hosting rights for the Australian Drivers Championship ? Wasn’t that Harness Racing Australia? Isn’t their decision an endorsement of TasRacings management of harness racing in the state? Or should that be mismanagement? I guess it’s no surprise given that the […]
Vaughn Newman is a small time licensed South Australian trainer who lives just a couple of streets from Globe Derby, where to date he has been working his horses. He was doing exactly that 4 weeks ago when he noticed that the surface of the track was to his mind sub-standard, and detrimental to the […]
Brad Stewart with his dad Neville Former top flight jockey Brad Stewart’s first winner Masterplan was very special to him, for more reasons than one. Masterplan was bred by Stewart and his family out of a mare named Western Desert that his dad Neville used to own and train. Western Desert is also the mother […]
Dreams Are Free has to be one 0f the best bred young pacers running around on both sides of the ditch. By the champion US sire Captain Treacherous out of Start Dreaming, a mare who ran 2nd to the champion The Orange Agent, won a G2 Robin Dundee at Menangle, and threw the superstar juvenile […]
So much for Tasmania’s announced intention to implement new policies preventing any single trainer – specifically Ben Yole – from having more than half the field in a race. It appears to have gone the way of the dodo, probably the same dodo who wrote the policy replete with loopholes that you could drive a […]
One of the more interesting matters coming out of Randwick yesterday was the scratching of three James Cummings trained 2yo’s from the first race, leaving it with a field of just 7, a number that it is well known has a substantial negative effect on wagering turnover. It turned out that none of the trio […]
Mark Zahra’s $50 000 fine and 7 meeting suspension for striking Without A Fight with the whip 9 times prior to the 100m mark in the Caulfield Cup is the 2nd most severe penalty that I can ever remember being handed down to a rider for breaching the whip rule, behind only Kerrin McEvoy’s massive […]
In one of those stories that sound too strange to be true, a range of imported Kiwi produced horse feed sold by Hygain called Fiber Fresh has been recalled from the shelves after dead hedgehogs were found in the product. The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) ordered the feed to be taken off […]
